Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 @lupyuen@qoto.org

@mishari @lupyuen It may become the norm in more authoritarian states, but that just means that the free speech platforms will abandon those states, and they'll be replaced by state-run propaganda machines.

For those of us who live in countries that value free speech, it should never become the norm, because the person who wrote the speech should be held accountable for it, not the medium by which it was transmitted.

@LouisIngenthron @lupyuen that I think is the great question and ongoing experiment.

If Covid was any indication of what's to come in the Internet era, I suspect humanity will end up with a hybrid model of mostly controlled narrative with pockets of free speech being allowed to exist.

@mishari @lupyuen That very much depends on who's doing the "controlling".

If it's government, that worries me greatly.

If it's private companies, then we can choose to leave any time, so that's much less worrisome.

@LouisIngenthron @lupyuen My guess is it will become the norm as we figure out a new social contract regarding the dissemination of information.

Thailand has a similar law about to go as well. @moui

@lupyuen I hope Singapore wasn't too attached to social media, then.

Nobody needs that level of vague and urgent liability hanging over their head.

@lupyuen What I'm really looking forward to is #embed in C, and std:::embed in C++. I think I've got a long wait until it's implemented, though.

C is conservative in the extreme. C just blasts others out of the water in some respects, though. Like, I can demand that a piece of code is put in flash, or alternatively in RAM. I'm not sure what other languages have this flexibility.